Swallowed the Flame

Title: “When They Finally Heard” Verse 1 White coats, blue gloves, polished names Fluorescent mercy, sterile shame They said, “You’re safe,” then crossed the line And left the wreckage in my mind I carried silence like a stone Screamed in my chest when I got home Each time it happened, something tore And I was not the same anymore Pre-Chorus They looked away, they chose their side Called it confusion, called it lies But truth don’t die, it waits in pain Until enough voices say the same Chorus No one believed me till the room got loud Till more broken voices rose out of the crowd I was telling the truth when I cried alone When I shook in the dark, when I couldn’t go home They almost broke me, piece by piece Dressed like help, pretending peace But I’m still here, and now they hear What they did to me, when they finally heard Verse 2 An ambulance ride, a trusted hand Another wolf in a uniformed man He drugged the fear straight through my veins And turned my body into a place of pain While I was fading, he took more Than any stranger had before And somewhere inside, a light went thin I thought I’d never come back again Pre-Chorus They doubted every word I said Like I was haunted in the head But truth kept burning underground Till all the buried pain was found Chorus No one believed me till the room got loud Till more broken voices rose out of the crowd I was telling the truth when I cried alone When I shook in the dark, when I couldn’t go home They almost broke me, piece by piece Dressed like help, pretending peace But I’m still here, and now they hear What they did to me, when they finally heard Bridge I was never crazy I was never wrong I was carrying monsters And calling it strong Now every “no” they buried Every wound they hid Comes back like thunder Naming what they did Final Chorus You didn’t believe me when I stood alone When I wore my fear like shattered bone But the silence cracked, and the truth got through And now the world can see what I always knew They almost broke me, but I did not bend I lost my faith, then found my voice again And I will not disappear Now that you finally hear Outro Now you finally hear Now you finally hear I was telling the truth Every single year